Newspaper-vending machine.



1. LEVINE. NEWSPAPER VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.25| I9I7.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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NEWSPAPER VENDING MACHINE.:

APPLICATION FILED AUG-25, |917.

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JOHN LEVINE, or nu'raorr, MICHIGAN.,

NEWSPAPER-.VENDING MACHINE.

Speoication of Letters Patent. i Patented Aug.'

i Application filed August 25, 1917. Serial No. 188,111.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Lavinia, a citi-` zen of the United States of America, resid# ing at Detroit.` in the county of W'ayne and 'Sta-te .of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Newspaper- Vending Machines of which the'following is v a specification', reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a newspapervending machine, although the machine, with or without slight modifications and changes, may be used for vending other artif cles, such as books, magazines and various kinds of periodicals.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a machine ofthe above type which may be easily and quickly loaded and used on street corners and at other prominent ,places for dispensing daily newspapers in lieu of a news boy, the machine being constructed so that there may be newspapers for a great many subscribers, and it is in this connection that the machine and lits controlling mechanism may be considered a combination of a plurality of individual machines, within one Structure and having a common -coin magazine and certain other features for the benefit of subscribers and the owner.

A further object of my invention is to provide a machine of the above type wherein the parts are constructed with a view ofreducing the cost of manufacture, and at the same time retain those features by which durability, ease of operation and safety of the papers or merchandise are secured. With such ends in view, my invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of a pQrtion of the machine, looking at-the inner side of the front wall of the machine to show the coin controlled operating mechanism relative to the dispensing compartments of the machine;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of a portion of the machine;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional View of'a portion of the coin controlled operating mechanism;

Fig. 4 is a similar view, showing a port1on of one of the door latches;

Fig. 5 isa front elevation of the machine. In describing my invention by aid of the viewsabove're erred to, I desire to point out that the same are intended as merely illustrative of an example by which my invention may be put into ractice,'and I do not l care'to'conine myse f to the precise constructlon and arrangementof parts shown. The following description is therefore broadly construed as including such substitute constructlons and arrangementof parts which are the obvious lequivalents of those to be hereinafter referred to.

The machine, as shown, vis made of light and durable metal andl such parts of the machlne as exposed to the elements are finished so as to be non-corrodible and atthe same time present an attractive appearance. The machine is somewhat in theform of a cabinet having a bottom wall l, a front wall 2, end walls and 4, a rear wall 5 and la top wall 6. In parallelism with the 'end wall 3 and in proximity thereto is a vertical partition 7 providing an operating compart- `ment throughout the height of the machine,

and the partition 7 and walls 2, 3 and 5 are connected by a `plurality of superposed horizontal partitions-9, saidpartitions dividing the machine into compartments 10 adapted to contain newspapers, or other merchandise to be vended.

Thefront wall 2 has a door way ll'for each of the compartmentslO and suitably hinged at the upper edge of each doorway is a door 12 that may be easily swung upwardly to permit of easy access to 'the compartments. The inner side of each door, at the lower edge thereof and contiguous to each end, has keepers ,113 adapted to be engaged by hook portions 14 of a latch bar 15 slidable upon the horizontal partition v9 `or the bottom of the compartment.v Each latch 4bar is maintained in place by an angle plate 16 having pins 17 extending through longi- -tudlnal slots 1.8 in the latch bar, the pins 17 limiting the longitudinal movementof doorway 21 for the operatingcompartment 8 and said doorway 1s normally closed by the door 22 hin ed adjacent'the Wall 3 o lnism which does not interfere with the machine. T e door 22 is adapted to be held closed by a conventional form of look 23 and on the inner side of the door 1s mounted a coin controlled operatin mechat efopening of the door. y

For each latch bar 15 there 1s an`1nd1v1dual coin controlled operating mechanism onthe back or inner side ofthe door 22, each that the latch bar will be positioned to permit of ithe stud 26 moving out of the bifurcated lug 20, when the door 22 1s swung open.y The lower end of the arm 25 1s beveled or provided with a tooth -28 adapted to engage `in a notch in the upper edge of a pivoted spring pressed pawl 30 carried by the in ner side of the, door 22. The pawl 30 will yield whenthemember 24 is actuated to shift the latching bar 15 to an unlocked position to release the door 12 andthe end of said pawl will engage the beveled or toothed endof the arm 25 and hold the member 24 in 1 ts shifted position, so that the latch'bar `15 W1ll be heldI while thedoor 12 isv opened.

The spring 27 engaging the bifurcated lug '.20 and lug engaging the stud 26 ofthe member 4, tends to hold said member in its normal position against a stop 31 carried by the inner side of thedoor 22. rllhe member 24 has a lateral beveled extension 32 extending into a slot 33 of a coin chute 34 connected to the inner'side of the door 22. The

munication With'a slot 37 inthe door 22.' A The bottom wall of the coin-slot 37 is in a coin chute- 34 extends in proximity to the bottom of the operating compartment Sand said coin chute has branches 35 for the in dividual coin controlled' operating mechanism' for each of the compartments 10 of the machine. The upper end of the coin chute 34, as `well as the branchesy thereof, has a funnel shaped mouth to receive a coin anda portion' of the chute mouth is in comhorizontal plane with a ledge or rest member 38 connected to the outer side of the door 22, andjextending through the slot 3?' v is-the outer apertured end 39 of a push or v is pivoted by coin transferring member 40 pivoted onl a bracket 41 carried by the inner side of the door 22. The coin transferring member 40 a pin 42 supporting a spring 43 which has one end thereof engaging a post 44 'of the member 40, said spring holding the member'40 normally in an extended ,the upper end of the member position on theA rest member 38 so. that a coin may be placed in the aperture of` the coin the slot 45. Slidable in the slotted guide 46 f and the slot 45 is a coin actuating member 47 supported normally elevated in the guide member 46 by a coiled compression spring 48., When a coin is placed in the transferring member 40 and said member pushed inwardly, the cin drops into the funnel shaped mouth 36 of the coin chute 34 and is temporarily held by the beveled extension 32 of the pivoted member 24. Thefcoin is below the inner end ofthe actuating member 474 and when said member. is manually de-A pressed or lowered, the coin forces the lateral extension 32 downwardly andvsaid coin is Vliberated to drop bl gravity in the chute 34.

The :spring 48 Wil restore the coin actuating member 47 to normal position and the spring 43 will restore the transferring member 40 to normal tion taking member 40 being manually released. y, When the pivoted member 24 is tilted or actuated by a coin, the latch bar 15 is shifted to yrelease the door 12, as heretofore pointed out, and to deposited within the machine when the door 12is unlocked and the compartment empty, 24 has an arm 49 that is swung downwardly above the funnel shaped-mouth 436 of the coin chute position, the latterl opera- 34. The arm 49 will be in a. planewith the rest member 38 and will malntain a coin in the transferring member 40 when said member is forced inwardly. The coin will rest on the arm 49 and be prevented from dropping into the mouth of the coin chute. That side of the member 24 confronting the `back or inner side yof thev door 22 has a suitable designation, as' the Word empty which is adapted to be displayed through a slot 50 in the door22, such display taking place after thek pawl 30- holds the member 24 with the door 12k unlocked, wherebyA a prospective purchaser `of a newspaper or merchandise can readily' observe which compartments of the machine are empty.

When the compartments 10 have been loaded and the door 12 closed, the latch bars 'are released bythe opening of the door 22 among which may be mentioned audible and visible signals to indicate that extra newspapers are for sale. Batteries or a suit-r able source of 'electrical energy, generally place immediately upon thel prevent coins from being designated 51 are adapted to supply electricity to an audible signal 52, as a bell or alcontrol the operation of said signals, the bell 52 being used in the daytime and the lamp 53 at night.

1. In a vending machine, a cabinet having Vertical and horizontal partitions providing operating and merchandise compartments in said cabinet, hinged doors for the operating and merchandise compartments of said cabinet, latch bars slidable on the partitions forming thebottoms of the merchandise compartments and extending into the operating compartment of the cabinet, keepers carried by the doors of the merchandise compartments and adapted to be engaged bysaid latch bars, bifurcated lugs on the ends of said latch bars in the operating compartment of said cabinet, pivoted members carried by the inner side of thel door of the operating compartment and adapted to engage the bifurcated lugs of said latch bars, means normally engaging said pivoted members adapted to -hold said members when shifted to retain said latch bars in unlocked positions, and a coin actuating member -carried by the door ofsaid operating ycompartment for each pivoted member, and adapted through the medium of a coin to shift its pivoted member. v

2. A vending machine of the type described comprising a cabinet having vertical and horizontal partitions dividing the cabinet into operating and merchandise compartments, doors for all the compartments of the cabinet, latch bars slidable on the horizontal partitions of said cabinet and adapted for locllng the doors ofthe merchandise compartments, said latch bars eX- tending into the operating compartment of said cabinet and provided with apertured lugs, pivoted members on the door of the operating compartment of said cabinet, and normally engaging the apertured lugs of said latch bars, means engaging said pivoted members adapted to hold said lnembers shifted so that said latch bars are in unlocked position, means carried by the door of the operating compartment of said cabinet adapted through the medium of a coin to actuate each pivoted member, and means carried by each pivoted member adapted to prevent actuation thereof when the latch bar affected by vsaid member is in an unlocked position.

3. In a newspaper vending machine, a cabinet having a newspaper compartment and an operatlng compartment, doors for both of said compartments, a latch bar in the paper compartment adapted to hold the door thereof closed and said latch bar extending into the operating compartment of said cabinet, apivoted member carried by the door of the operating compartment of said cabinet,l and normally engaging said latchbar, means engaging said pivoted member adapted to hold said member when shifted withthe latch bar in an unlocked position, a coin actuating member carried by the door of the' operating compartment of said cabinet and adapted through the medium of a coin to shift saidv pivoted member, and means carried by said'pivoted member preventing actuation thereof when said latch bar is in an unlocked position.

' In-testimony whereof I aiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' JOHN LEVINF Witnesses:

ANNA M. Donn,

KARL H. BUTLER 

